] Clutching her new cowboy hat, 2-year-old Carson Weigart
] nodded as she surveyed the array of four-legged critters
] moseying around Maury County Park yesterday afternoon.
]
] ''Haflingers,'' she said matter-of-factly when her
] grandfather asked what type of horses those were.
]
] He grinned at her knowledge.
]
] This pint-sized Bethel, Ala., cowgirl %u2014 clad in
] Wrangler's, a fancy belt and cowgirl shirt %u2014
] sauntered through her first Mule Day experience like a
] seasoned cowpoke, eyeing the mules and petting the
] horses.
]
] Tomorrow, she will join her family for the 11 a.m. Mule
] Day parade %u2014 riding in a wagon pulled by her
] grandfather's set of Haflingers, a popular breed of horse
] that traces its origin to the Tyrolean mountains of
] Austria and northern Italy.
]
] Mule Day festivities got under way yesterday in Maury
] County Park, with visitors first having to walk a
] gauntlet of food vendors hawking everything from roasted
] ears of corn to fried Twinkies.

Can you say roasted corn and mullets?

County begins Mule Day festivities - Friday, 04/04/03